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Why an entire book on communication and people with Down syndrome?
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Improving the Communication of People with Down Syndrome
Edited by Jon F. Miller, Ph.D., Mark Leddy, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, & Lewis A. Leavitt, M.D.
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Filling a void in contemporary literature, this book offers an extensive, detailed explanation of communication development in people with Down syndrome relative to their advancing cognitive skills.
It introduces a critical framework for assessing and treating hearing, speech, and language problems and provides explicit intervention methods and tested clinical protocols. Scientists and clinicians apply state-of-the-art investigation methods and synthesize the results of extensive longitudinal and cross-sectional studies to identify communication milestones and to describe a systematic approach for predicting speech and language growth.
Using this unique resource, speech-language pathologists, special educators, pediatricians, and researchers will increase their understanding of communication problems in children with Down syndrome and improve their evaluation and treatment skills. |
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ORDERING INFO
ISBN 1-55766-350-5
Paperback
304 pages / 6 x 9
1999 / $34.95
Stock# 3505
LIMITED INVENTORY
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Table of Contents
About the Editors
Contributors
Preface
- Introduction: The Communication Challenges that People with Down Syndrome Face
Jon F. Miller, Mark Leddy, and Lewis A. Leavitt
Section I: Communication Characteristics of People with Down Syndrome and Their Families
- Profiles of Language Development in Children with Down Syndrome
Jon F. Miller
- Language Development in Children and Adolescents with Down Syndrome
Robin S. Chapman
- The Biological Bases of Speech in People with Down Syndrome
Mark Leddy
- Verbal Fluency, Speech Intelligibility, and Communicative Effectiveness
Jon F. Miller and Mark Leddy
- Individual Differences in Mothers' Communication with their Young Children with Down Syndrome
Mary A. Roach, Marguerite Stevenson Barratt, and Lewis A. Leavitt
Section II: Assessment and Intervention
- Evaluating Communication to Improve Speech and Language Skills
Jon F. Miller, Mark Leddy, and Lewis A. Leavitt
- Communication Interventions: Improving the Speech Intelligibility of Children with Down Syndrome
Peggy Rosin and Edie Swift
- Assistive Technology: Strategies and Tools for Enhancing the Communication Skills of Children with Down Syndrome
Jamie E. Murray-Branch and Julie E. Gamradt
- Enhancing the Speech and Language Skills of Adults with Down Syndrome
Mark Leddy and Gary Gill
Section III: Thinking About the Future
- Families of Adults with Down Syndrome
Marsha Mailick Seltzer and Marty Wyngaarden Krauss
- A View Toward the Future: Improving the Communication of People with Down Syndrome
Jon F. Miller, Mark Leddy, and Lewis A. Leavitt
Appendixes
- Resource List
- World Wide Web Sites on Down Syndrome and Related Topics
Helen Hartman
- Medical Care of Children with Down Syndrome
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